The Tour de France happened to be passing about 5km from where I’m staying (near Les Baux des Provence), so naturally a viewing was in order. The first group came and went in the span of about two seconds:

Then maybe half a minute later the second, much larger, group whizzed by. They were a bit more spread out, turning to single file after this short red clump at the head:

Zoom zip! We could feel the whoosh of the giant wind tunnel as we stood on the side of the road.